CE19008 Cruise Report: Monitoring Changes in Submarine Canyon Coral Habitats - Leg 1 (MoCha_SCan)

• Main Authors: Lim, Aaron, O' Reilly, Luke, Summers, Gerard, Harris, Kim, Shine, Andrew, Harman, Luke, Macedo, Larissa, Boyd, John, Anders, Bebhinn, Killeen, Orla, Conti, Luis, O' Brien, Martina, Holland 1 ROV technical team, Officers and Crew of the RV Celtic Explorer
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Porcupine Bank Canyon, cold water corals, deep sea habitats, NE Atlantic; Kane; Luke; Porcupine Bank; Porcupine Seabight; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3699110; https://zenodo.org/record/3699110

Cruise report - Executive Summary This survey focused on the maiden deployment of a number of novel, ROV-adapted lander systems in the Porcupine Bank Canyon (PBC) coral habitats, NE Atlantic. Cold water corals (CWCs) flourish on the Irish-Atlantic margin between 600 and 100 m water depth, where they...